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The building is a national tragedy – a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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Academic Architecture Century Developed Dictate
We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
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Afford Architecture City Ultimate Deserve Keep
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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Art Demeaning Deprived Feeling Reduce Self
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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Common Real Rigor Mortis Room Waiting Wanting
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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Blush Competence Country Computer Laid
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Architecture Pursuit Style Unapologetic Unfettered
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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Clutter Feeling. Oldest Involve Iron Long Most
And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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Aesthetic City Infrastructure Override Sunlight
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Build Clearly Clerk Country Endless Palace
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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Art Cutting Grind History Purpose
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Clothes Kind Love Right Summer Tension

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